[cups] Printing 2 copies on a double sided printer

Axel Braun axel.braun at gmx.de
Tue Sep 22 01:10:45 PDT 2020


Am Montag, 21. September 2020, 19:11:23 CEST schrieb Helge Blischke:
> > Am 21.09.2020 um 12:24 schrieb Axel Braun <axel.braun at gmx.de>:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a PDF with a single page. I want to print 2 copies.
> > The printer prints by default double sided (long edge binding).
> >
> > Result: 2 copies are printed on one paper (front & backside)
> > Expected result: 2 copies are printed on 2 separate papers
> >
> > Printer is a Brother MFC 9340 CDW, 'Force Rasterisation' on the Okular/KDE
> > print menu creates indeed 2 copies!
> >
> > I had addressed this in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425289 , KDE
> > team says it is an upstream issue.
> >
> > CUPS version is 2.3b6 - any idea what I could do?
>
> From a terminal window, execute the command
>
> lpadmin -p <printer> -o cupsManualCopies=true
> or
> lpadmin -p <printer> -o default-cupsManualCopies=true
>
> where <printer> is the queue name of the printer in question.

I tried

lpadmin -p MFC9340CDW -o default-cupsManualCopies=true

before printing from Okular, but that did not fix it.....

Axel




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